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Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of the modern period. But what do we mean by modern war? What causes modern wars to begin? Why do people fight in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-07-25
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**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-25
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The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-07-25
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A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-07-25
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The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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This work brings together eleven of Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two, and their importance to the Greeks themselves.
Situating and contextualising topics and themes, such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-24
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This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-07-24
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Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-24
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Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-24
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Encounters is the wide-ranging, audacious and gripping story of New Zealand's changing national identity, how it has emerged and evolved through generations. In this genre-busting book, historian Paul Moon delves into how the many and conflicting ideas about New Zealand...
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Nz Epenguin
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2013-07-24
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Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-23
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This book examines the partnerships between Britain's famed redcoats and the foreign corps that were a consistent and valuable part of Britain's military endeavors in the eighteenth century. While most histories have portrayed these associations as fraught with discord,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-19
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Die ersten Anfänge wissenschaftlicher Betrachtung der Ukraine gehen bereits auf das 19. Jahrhundert zurück, politisch bedingt jedoch kann erst nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg von einer Ukrainistik in Prag, Berlin und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in München gesprochen werden....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-18
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After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the...
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Transworld Digital
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2013-07-18
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In this volume, Mirko Canevaro studies the 'state' documents (laws and decrees) preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. These documents purport to be Athenian statutes and, if authentic, provide invaluable information about Athenian history, law, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-18
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Bringing together core selections from and analysis of material documenting the uneasy collaboration between Herbert and Eisenhower, this collection incisively uses primary sources to illuminate the 1952 Republican nomination fight, the second Hoover Commission, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-17
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Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-17
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Im Jahr 1907 reiste der Barmer Gustav Hellmann in die damalige Kolonie Deutsch-Südwestafrika, um eine Stelle als Missionskaufmann in Karibib anzutreten. Während seines sechzehnjährigen Aufenthaltes füllte er drei Tagebücher, welche hier zusammen mit den Aufzeichnungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-17
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